Record. 



XXIX 



1856 



1860 



1865 



1870 1875 1880 1885 

 Fig. 1. Total Membersliip. 



1900 



cipal cause for that drop was the Civil War, not so much because it took 

 members away to the war, but because then those who did not go to the 

 war were not particularly interested in the Academy, and the afEairs of the 

 Academy waned, and, as you see, the membership dropped to below 50. 

 Then there were increases, as you see, and in the later years of the Academy 



1870 1875 1880 1885 

 Fig. 2. Actual Membership. 



1895 



1900 



